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“But, after all, what is a scholar? One who may not break bounds under pain of expulsion from the academy of which he is a member.”
― The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
― The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
“It should be said at once that the completely profane world, the wholly desacralized cosmos, is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit…for the nonreligious men of the modern age, the cosmos has become opaque, inert, mute; it transmits no message, it holds no cipher.”
― The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
― The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
“He had also gone through a bad divorce, become estranged from his only daughter and been diagnosed with skin cancer, but he insisted that all of that, however painful, was secondary to the sudden realization that it was mathematics—not nuclear weapons, computers, biological warfare or our climate Armageddon—which was changing our world to the point where, in a couple of decades at most, we would simply not be able to grasp what being human really meant.”
― When We Cease to Understand the World
― When We Cease to Understand the World
“How do you know if it is spirit or nature who answers? Maybe there is no difference at all. Maybe grace is green.”
― Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
― Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
“human beings traditionally have great trouble in coping with the concept of random chance. People tend on the whole to want to assign occurrences of remarkable good or bad luck to agency, either human or superhuman. It is important to emphasize, however, that malevolent humans have been only one kind of agent to whom such causation has been attributed: the others include deities, non-human spirits that inhabit the terrestrial world, or the spirits of dead human ancestors.”
― The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
― The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
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